benny mardones - "into the night" 1980 version vs. 1989 version

i rocked the shit outta this at karaoke a couple weeks ago

alltime karaoke song, no doubt

Mardones needs to be told that the lyrics only get creepier every time he records a new version. 73-year-old Benny needs to walk away from cheerleader practice and get back to his mopping before the principal calls his parole officer.

"The song's just thirty-one years old..."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJvdVb-oEQ

a timeless holiday classic

just heard at the coffee shop

i lolled

ha! i heard this on the radio the other day and it was toward the end and i was disappointed.

for a while a local philly-area convenience store chain was playing this every other time i went in and now they never play it u_u

a local philly-area convenience store chain

say wawa. say it

Can't believe it took me so long to realize he's singing this from prison.

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/mardones_zpswxi9gbwy.png

show some respect

into the night (four tet remix)

If he was gonna milk a single song for his whole career, he could've at least mixed it up a little, a la Chubby Checker and 'The Twist'. 'Into The Night Again'. 'Macarena Into The Night'. 'Into The Judgment Night (feat. Grand Puba)'. '(Go) Into The Light (Fallen Heroes of 9/11)'.

Whoomp! (There It Goes, Into The Night)

has anyone ever covered this?

no-one big

this one is pretty bad
https://youtu.be/DqqM4u4ir-8

i kinda like this reggaed-out cover tho
https://youtu.be/oJrqDNBF1Yk

good revive. this is my favorite ilm thread

There's an alternate universe where Benny first rerecorded this song in 1984, with a gospel choir thrown on it, and it is that universe's "I Want To Know What Love Is."

Jam Dev 2 weeks ago
Not sure I follow the story of the vid. Think he's her dad, but his ex won't give him access unless he pays child support?

Ali Bee
Ali Bee 2 weeks ago
Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

We were wrong. There is something creepier than than the song "Into the Night." That thing: the original video for Benny Mardones' "Into the Night," featuring a goblin-faced Benny Mardones in a sleeveless striped t-shirt stalking a sixteen year old girl through a window, and then through a spectral statutory rape Tardis, and finally on a magic carpet that smells like Night Train and old cigarette smoke.

http://i.imgur.com/09bN1TK.png

http://i.imgur.com/xBcz9zm.png

Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

The only way this song can be enjoyed

i wish Mike Patton/Faith No More would cover this
it's so in their wheelhouse of cheesy covers

aaand I posted the same thing 4 yrs ago, lol

CMON PATTON, wtf

I'll say this: This is a rough song to have stuck in one's head for more than a day.

http://i.imgur.com/NWivCZb.jpg

a+

Cranking the Mardones rn

is that euphemism
have you broken any state laws y/n

hahaha no but i got home from the bar and saw this and listened to "into the night" get progressively worse with the 89, 2002, and finally acoustic versions

'Into the K-Hole (feat. Death in Vegas)' from the Spawn original motion picture soundtrack.

that doesn't make sense but at the same time it makes a lot of sense

Bump.

Just remembered this classic thread after Mr. Mardones came up on shuffle. Those screams in the fade are truly crazed, the sound of a desperate man being dragged away from a high school fence after going to all that trouble of cutting off his ankle monitor.

I get so mad now when I hear this song.

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar
complete with screams at the end
i am disgusting!

<3

wkiw

i had forgotten about this song. hearing it now returned me to the back of my mom's silver Honda Civic .

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar

o m g

Wish he woulda at least updated the ages when he kept remaking the song.

Soon he can just say "she's just sixty years old"

No, no, it was a different sixteen year old girl the second time, hence the re-release

At least this time around the sixteen year old girl in question is just an anime print on a body pillow. I guess that's progress?

Listening rn after an inexcusably long lapse. Happy to announce that it's lost none of its power to induce bone-deep creep-outs.

I could've sworn there was a lyric about Benny conveying this message by scrawling it in his own blood across the side of this poor girl's family house and being sent to jail when her father found him passed out in the yard the next morning, but perhaps it's just subtextual.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73

Was just thinking about this guy.

Dad turns 71 this summer and sent me a photo of Johnny Cash from 2001. "This is what 71 looks like!"

Made me think of Rick Rubin calling up Benny Mardones, asking if he wanted the CASH treatment.

RUBIN: Got some ideas perfect for the first single: "Soma" by Smashing Pumpkins, um, song called "Harrowdown Hill" by Thom Yorke – he's the guy from Radiohead....

MARDONES: What about.... "Into the Night"?

She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone.
You're dead

RIP to an ILX creepy legend

Wonder if he'll die again in 2029?

Hahaha

Though the opening lines ("She's just 16 years old/ 'Leave her alone,' they said") made many listeners uncomfortable coming from the then-33-year-old Mardones, he would later explain the song was inspired by his platonic relationship with a teenage neighbor of his whose father had left her. (The first line was supposedly meant as a rejoinder to his co-writer, who got a little leery when meeting her for the first time.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_UM8rcGe4

Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass